then you may want to participate in BioASQ Task 5b (biomedical semantic QA).
More information at http://bioasq.org/participate/challenges#Task5b

If you are interested in any of the following areas:
* Information retrieval
* Named-entity recognition and disambiguation
* Machine learning, classification, learning to rank
* Information extraction

then you may want to participate in the NEW BioASQ Task 5c (Funding Information Extraction From Biomedical Literature).
More information at http://bioasq.org/participate/challenges#Task5c

Important dates:
* Task 5a: You can join anytime from February 06, 2017 onwards. New data sets will be released weekly.
* Task 5b: You can join on ANY of the following dates:
- March 08, 2017
- March 22, 2017
- April 5, 2017
- April 19, 2017
- May 3, 2017
* Task 5c: Early April 2017.

Detailed schedule at http://bioasq.org/participate/schedule

Training data for both tasks available at http://participants-area.bioasq.org/